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Toward an Architecture

Toward an Architecture

Paperback

Series: Getty Research Institute

General ArchitectureArchitecture History

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ISBN10: 0892368225
ISBN13: 9780892368228
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: Oct 15 2007
Pages: 358
Weight: 2.55
Height: 1.30 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals.

Le Corbusier urges readers to cease thinking of architecture as a matter of historical styles and instead open their eyes to the modern world. Simultaneously a historian, critic, and prophet, he provocatively juxtaposes views of classical Greece and Renaissance Rome with images of airplanes, cars, and ocean liners. Le Corbusier's slogans--such as the house is a machine for living in--and philosophy changed how his contemporaries saw the relationship between architecture, technology, and history. This edition includes a new translation of the original text, a scholarly introduction, and background notes that illuminate the text and illustrations.

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